Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

We explore the impact of allowing for outsourcing service delivery to the private sector within Indonesia’s largest targeted transfer program. In a field experiment across 572 municipalities, we find that allowing for outsourcing the last mile of food delivery reduced operating costs without sacrifi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema, Kyle, Jordan, Olken, Benjamin, Sumarto, Sudarno
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics and Engineering
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124283